December 2024 - Corpora

MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions - BICEPS project
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Position in Bayer you can find here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286014 AI-driven data analysis, target identification and treatment development in PD The project will be implemented at Bayer A.G. , under the supervision of Nikola Milošević. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia. Recent research has highlighted the complex interplay between the nervous and immune systems in PD pathogenesis, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches to study neuro-immune interactions. This project aims to research best practices for, and develop novel collaborative no-code analytical platform specifically designed to explore and analyze neuro-immune interfaces in the context of PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. The research will first focus on full integration and making easily accessible evidence from both user-provided data and publicly available biomedical databases and literature sources, adhering to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. This will be followed by the representation of data in a knowledge graph, enabling sophisticated reasoning and hypothesis generation. Finally, the project will establish explainable AI-powered analytics, reasoning, hypothesis generation, and ranking pipelines about targets, pathways, and potential treatments. The platform will incorporate various data types, including genetic, biochemical, and clinical information, to provide a comprehensive view of the neuro-immune landscape in PD. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and natural language processing, the system will be able to analyze and integrate results from multiple experimental studies, literature sources, and other relevant data repositories. This multidisciplinary approach combines techniques from computer science, bioinformatics, and neuroscience to create a powerful tool for PD research. Expected outcomes of this project include determining the precise best practices for multi-layered analysis of targets involved in neurodegenerative diseases and developing a system that can help scientists collaborate, review, analyze, and integrate results from diverse sources. Ultimately, this work could lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets and potential treatments for PD by facilitating a deeper understanding of the complex neuro-immune interactions underlying the disease. The collaborative nature of the platform will foster interdisciplinary research and accelerate the pace of discovery in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Freundliche Grüße / Best regards, Dr. Nikola Milosevic Senior Computational Scientist | Bayer Science Fellow //////////////////////// Bayer AG Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals R&D Data Sciences and AI, Scientific Insights Solutions Building S105, 342 13342 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 46817948 Mobile: +49 174 2169881 E-mail: nikola.milosevic(a)bayer.com<mailto:nikola.milosevic@bayer.com> Web: http://www.bayer.com Datenschutzhinweise<https://www.bayer.de/de/datenschutzhinweise-fuer-ausgewaehlte-verarbeitungs…> // Data privacy information<https://www.bayer.com/en/data-privacy-information-for-specific-processing-a…> /// Board of Management: Bill Anderson, Chairman | Wolfgang Nickl, Stefan Oelrich, Heike Prinz, Rodrigo Santos, Julio Triana /// Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Norbert Winkeljohann /// Registered office: Leverkusen | Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 48248

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1st CFP-GITT-2025 at MT Summit 2025
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

1st CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025 23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social **Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth)** Submission deadline: 10 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 4 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 11 April, 2025 Workshop: 23 June, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. --ARCHIVAL-- - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) -- Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. --NON-ARCHIVAL-- - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair. **Workshop organizers** Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Chiara Manna, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg

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Biceps MSCA 16 Doctoral Candidate Positions
by Nikola Milosevic 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to BICEPS Marie Curie Sklodowska doctoral program, where we have 16 PhD positions across the following institutions across Europe: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bayer metaSysX GmbH University of Groningen Aarhus University University of Athens University of Belgrade Anacalypsis Therapeutics Sulfateq B.V. H. Lundbeck A/S University of Oxford Suleyman Demirel University Semical Biosurgery Several positions are focusing on bioinformatics and there are few also dealing with text. (e.g. Bayer one). You can find positions here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search?f%5B0%5D=offer_type%3Ajob_offer&f… *Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the peripheral immune system's vital role in Parkinson's disease* Decades of research into Parkinson's disease (PD) have fallen short in fully comprehending its mechanisms, leaving us without a cure. Current treatments merely alleviate symptoms temporarily, but are unable to impede the progression of the disease. Clearly, PD research has hit a wall, and new approaches are needed. Recent discoveries of the involvement of the peripheral immune system in PD have sparked a groundbreaking proposition by BICEPS: PD must be considered a systemic disease with an immune response involving both brain and periphery. Thus, to revolutionize PD research, we must shift away from the neuro-centric approach of past decades and extend our focus to studying the immune system outside the brain. Furthermore, recent advancements, such as systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data mining, diagnosis, and drug development, hold significant promise for advancing PD research. Therefore, BICEPS is uniting PD researchers, immunologists, and experts in AI and systems biology from leading European academic institutions, startup companies, and established pharmaceutical firms into a unique consortium. The primary objective is to train a new generation of PD researchers with interdisciplinary expertise in these fields. This ambitious goal will be realized through an intensive training program that encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, encourages innovation, nurtures transferable skills, and provides immersive, hands-on research experiences. Thereby, the BICEPS network aims to shape the future of PD research by adopting a fresh perspective and expediting the development of diagnostics and therapies for PD, with a particular focus on the immune system. Best regards, Dr Nikola Milosevic

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 1st CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

*** First Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: March 7, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: April 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: May 16, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBA The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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PhD position in Cologne on the role of gender in prominence hierarchies
by Elen Le Foll 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Dear all, We are looking to fill a PhD position (4 years, 65% FTE) in the project “The role of gender in prominence hierarchies: A cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective”. This project is part of the CRC “Prominence in Language” at the University of Cologne. The project is co-led by Elen Le Foll and Stefan Hinterwimmer. We aim to investigate the extent to which both social and grammatical gender hierarchies are reflected in linguistic prominence hierarchies. We will conduct corpus and experimental studies to investigate the potential role of gender in a number of morphosyntactic alternations in (i) English (a language with no grammatical gender), (ii) French (a language with two grammatical genders that mostly match social/referential genders), and (iii) German (a language with more than two grammatical genders). We are looking for a doctoral researcher interested in using quantitative corpus-linguistic methods and multivariable statistical techniques to account for the multi-dimensionality of prominence in naturally occurring data. *Your tasks* * Collect and pre-process corpus data in German and French * Perform linguistic annotation on corpus data in German and French * Design and conduct corpus studies on morpho-syntactic alternations in German and French * Analyse the results using multivariable statistical methods * Collaborate with the project leaders on related studies * Present your work at international conferences * Publish your results in academic journals *Your profile* * You are familiar with corpus linguistics research * You have experience with R (and/or other programming languages) * You have experience with statistical modeling (preferably in R) * You are highly proficient in English * You are proficient in German and French * You enjoy working in a team * You can quickly adapt to new research topics * You are interested in learning new research methods Application deadline: *17 January 2025* Start date: *1 April 2025* * More information about the position <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/sites/sfb_1252/user_upload/Ausschreibungen/PhD…>. * More information on the CRC. <https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de> Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards and happy holidays! Elen -- *Dr. Elen Le Foll* /Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer/ Applied Linguistics | Corpus Linguistics | Language Teaching & Learning Department of Romance Studies <https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> | Data Center for the Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/>University of Cologne <https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home> ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elen-Le-Foll>

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SCOLIA@ECIR2025 – 2nd CfP
by Ingo Frommholz 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** === CALL FOR PAPERS === **************************************************************************** First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA’25) held in conjunction with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25), April 10th, 2025 – Lucca, Italy Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 **************************************************************************** Dear colleagues, You are invited to submit your contribution to the First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2025), following the successful BIR workshop series, to be held as part of the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025, https://www.ecir2025.org) in Lucca, Tuscany. https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2025 The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Lucca (IT). === Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone - Submissions: 27th January 2025 - Notifications: 10th March 2025 - Camera Ready Contributions: 1st April 2025 - Workshop: 10th April 2025 === tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop. === Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing === Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2025 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics • Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., • Chatting with papers via chatbots • Bibliometric-enhanced IR • Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review • Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission • Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature • Recommendation of citations based on the context • Discourse modelling and argument mining • Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation • Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs. • Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., • Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM • Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references • Simulated users. • User Models and Collections, e.g., • Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search • Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction • Building test collections. • Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., • Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers • Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour • Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers • Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper • Flagging predatory conferences and journals. We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. • CEURART (incl. LaTeX and Word templates): https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-styl… • Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2025 Page limits: • Full paper: 12 pages excluding references • Short paper: 6 pages excluding references Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation). === Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Suzan Verberne, Leiden University, the Netherlands Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany For any enquiries please email scolia2025(a)easychair.org. -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @ifromm.bsky.social | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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Call for Participation: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025. We are pleased to share the programme of LoResLM 2025 with you. Please visit https://loreslm.github.io/program for the full programme. To register for the workshop, please visit https://coling2025.org/registration/ We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi. The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme. >> Keynote Speaker Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University. >> Organising Committee Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada Daan van Esch - Google Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland Amal Htait - Aston University, UK Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK Phil Weber - Aston University, UK Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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First Call for Papers: NLP4Disability The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2025
by Mourad Abbas 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

We are delighted to invite you to NLP4Disability <https://nlp4disability.github.io/>, the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2025, which will be held late June 2025 (*VIRTUAL*). *Topics* - Text-based disability identification through automated analysis and accessibility support - Accessible natural language interfaces designed for users with diverse needs - Alt-text generation creating automated image descriptions for visual impairments - Speech recognition enhancing ASR systems for hearing-impaired users - Speech synthesis tools supporting users with speech and vocal disabilities - Assistive NLP technologies developing language tools for communication access - Computational linguistics adapting language processing for disability support - Text processing modifying content for varied cognitive and learning needs - NLP bias addressing model fairness and representation in disability contexts - Memory assistance tools supporting age-related cognitive decline * Submission* · Papers must be submitted via the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=petra2025 · Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. · The reviewing process is *double-blind*. · Authors should use the *ACM format* <https://www.petrae.org/guide.html>*.* · Submitted papers should be *3-10 pages*, including references. *Important dates* *Submission deadline: 10 February 2025 * *Notification of acceptance:* 15 March 2025 *Camera-ready paper due:* 30 April 2025 *Publication* All accepted papers will be published in ACM <https://www.acm.org/>. Mourad Abbas

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CfP: Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology
by HANSEN Damien 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Call for papers Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology, co-located with the MT Summit 2025 The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applicability of language technology on translation efforts. Translation technology encompasses tools such as large language models (LLM), machine translation (MT) and computer-assisted translation (CAT) and their application in creative use cases such as marketing, literature and poetry, audiovisual translation and subtitling, and multilingual content creation on social media. We also encourage paper submissions on reception studies, and the development and user-testing of tools related to creative-text translation. Workshop date 23 or 24 June 2025 (to be decided by MT Summit organizers) Topics CTT welcomes contribution from a diverse audience, including translators, tool developers and users, researchers, students, and industry professionals working on or with creative-text translation. We invite submissions that explore the intersection of language technology and creative domains, addressing both practical applications and theoretical considerations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer-assisted/machine translation in marketing * Computer-assisted/machine translation of literary works, including poetry and prose * Computer-assisted/machine translation in audiovisual translation * Computer-assisted/machine translation in subtitling * Computer-assisted/machine translation in multilingual content creation * Resources (models, datasets, tools) for multilingual or parallel creative-text translation * User studies on creative-text CAT/MT * Limitations of current language technology in creative domains * Generative AI for creative text generation and translation * Impact of language technology on the creative translation process * Reception studies of machine-translated creative texts * Cross-lingual creativity: Translation challenges and innovations * Case studies of MT and CAT in creative industries Submission guidelines We accept long papers (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendices and sustainability statement). While we endeavor all papers to be presented as an oral presentation, depending on the number of submissions, we may select papers to be presented as posters instead. Accepted papers will only be published in the proceedings if (and only if) they were also presented in person at the workshop. * Submissions must be anonymized. The review will be double-blind. * Submissions should be formatted according to the official MT Summit style templates. * Papers should be submitted as PDF using the EasyChair platform. Details will be shared soon. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at CTT, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. Important dates * Paper submission: March 10th 2025 * Notification to authors: 31 March 2025 * Camera-ready: 7 April 2025 * (All deadlines are at 23.59 GMT) More information on: https://ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/

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CfP 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora)
by Fábián-Trost, Annamária 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Dear List, the 12th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on the 4th and 5th of September 2025 (CfP below and attached). Keynotes Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and social media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions to the 12th conference on following topics: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Interdisciplinary research design and research methods in CMC for the benefit of digital societies * Exploration of Diversity and Inclusion in CMC * Intersection of CMC and Social Sciences * Intersection of CMC and Human-Centered Data Science * Intersection of CMC and Computational Social Science * Contrastive CM studies across different languages The conference language is English. Submissions will consist of: * Short papers (2-4 pages – maximal 6 pages including the list of references –, following the existing template) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Submission and review Authors of accepted papers are invited to present their work at the conference (30-minute timeslots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress or early-stage research during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers for one or more special issue journal or a volume publication. Instructions for authors All contributions will be collected through an online platform (ConfTool). Templates Submission templates for MS Word and LaTeX are provided on the conference’s homepage: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/. Important Dates * Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: 17th February 2025 * Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15th May 2025, 23:59 CEST More information on the CMC2025 conference: https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/ For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc2025(a)uni-bayreuth.de. More information on the “International Conference Series on CMC and Social Media Corpora (cmc-corpora)”: https://cmc-corpora.org/series/# Local organizing committee: * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation at the Bavarian Academy of Science) * Prof. Dr. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/University of Passau) Scientific chairs: * Dr. Steven Coats (University Oulu) * Dr. Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth) * Prof. Dr. Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris University) * Prof. Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/U. of Passau) * Prof. Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Dr. Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) Scientific committee (so far confirmed): * Paul Baker (Lancaster University) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) * Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zürich) * Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) * Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Steven Coats (University of Oulu) * Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University) * Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Francisco Javier Fernández Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela) * Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth/Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation – Bavarian Academy of Science) * Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen) * Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) * Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University) * Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) * Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Besim Kabashi (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg) * Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center) * Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC) * Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) * Els Lefever (Ghent University) * Julien Longhi (Cergy-Pontoise Université) * Harald Lüngen (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski (University of Greifswald) * Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna) * Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) * Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache Mannheim) * Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Steven Schoonjans (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt) * Mirco Schönfeld (University of Bayreuth) * Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) * Egon Stemle (Eurac Research) * Caroline Tagg (The Open University) * Stefanie Ullmann (University of Cambridge) * Igor Trost (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt/Universität Passau) * Reinhild Vandekerckhove (University of Antwerp) * Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) * Stefanie Walter (Technical University Munich) * Katrin Weller (GESIS Cologne) All the best, Annamaria Fabian (Bayreuth) and Igor Trost (Klagenfurt/Passau) Dr. Annamaria Fabian Principal Investigator (Post-Doc) of the project "Disability diversity and the communicative realization of inclusion on Social Media" Department German Linguistics University of Bayreuth https://www.gl.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/A-Fabian/index.php Member of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (Bavarian Academy of Science) Head of the Research Group "Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Societies" Newly published: Annamaria Fabian, Igor Trost, Kevin Altmann & Mara Schwind (2024): The analysis of ‘inclusion’ and ‘accessibility’ in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies. pp. 16-20 (double-side print). In: Céline Poudat, Mathilde Guernut. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. 11th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2024), CORLI; Université Côte d’Azur, 2024. halshs-04673776v1 available here: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/CMC2024_2_.pdf

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